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Take Action: Tell the USDA to Outlaw the Use of Bullhooks in Circuses and Zoos!
Bullhooks are used to poke and prod elephants into obeying their trainers, but it's highly painful for them. Take action!
Goal: 20,000
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Progress: 22,086
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
Many zoos and circuses today are using inhumane techniques to train their elephants. The methods often involve the use of a bullhook, or a tool used to poke and punish the animals. The bullhook is made of metal and is highly painful to the elephant. The trainer uses the tool to exert pressure on the elephant's sensitive areas and ultimately coax it into performing.
The use of bullhooks and other training methods that utilize pain or force are inhumane and simply should not be permitted for use anywhere. Though captive, these elephants still have the right to live healthy and comfortable lives without humans torturing them.
Sign the petition asking Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to prohibit the use of bullhooks along with other force-based techniques when it comes to training circus and zoo animals.
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
As a concerned animal advocate, I am writing to voice my opinions on the use of bullhooks in zoos and circuses for the purpose of training animals. Most frequently, elephants are the victims of this method because they are so large and require a great deal of energy to train. However, there is no need to exert pain upon these poor creatures in the name of entertainment.
If we are going to remove wild animals from their natural habitats and place them in smaller, domesticated environments, we must ensure their quality of life does not decrease. Using objects such as bullhooks and other force-based techniques is cruel and inhumane. Human enjoyment isn't worth another creature having to suffer.
The elephants deserve to live in peace without being treated as slave animals. Zoos and circuses need to find ways to train their animals that don't harm them or make their lives worse. Please implement a ban on the use of bullhooks as well as force-based training methods altogether.
Thank you for your consideration.
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Catherine Burbury
May 14, 2013
cat day
May 14, 2013
petremann melanie
May 14, 2013
jenn rhoads
May 14, 2013
Ashley Klopstad
May 14, 2013
Judy Talley
May 14, 2013
E.S. Romero-Kibiloski
Please stop the cruelty, pain and suffering!
May 14, 2013
Chris Martino
May 14, 2013
RUBY YEBOAH
May 14, 2013
Ankie Ellajdel
May 14, 2013
Meri Paunonen
May 14, 2013
Madison Askins
May 14, 2013
catherine jablonska
May 14, 2013
Charlotte Rutherford
May 13, 2013
Shirley Holman
STOP hurting animals in the name of 'entertainment'!!!
May 13, 2013
Sandra Lacoss
May 13, 2013
Briana Camp
May 13, 2013
Kathy OXTON-VILLEMUER
May 13, 2013
Cecelia Samp
May 12, 2013
Barbara Gary
May 12, 2013
Stefania Nobile
I will never visit a circus again.
May 12, 2013
Nicole Matier
May 11, 2013
Vicki Wright
May 11, 2013
Di Griffiths
May 11, 2013
Sam Duncombe
May 11, 2013
Sandra Walker
May 11, 2013
Kirsty Bingham
May 11, 2013
Caroline Murphy
May 11, 2013
Sue Raw
May 11, 2013
linda reid
Elephants do not belong in circuses.
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
muriel roberts
animals are now banned in u.k. circuses,thank god .I know where I would like to put the bullhooks ! watch out trainers
May 10, 2013
Natalie Beens
May 9, 2013
Silvia Silva
May 9, 2013
doinita geanina ciubotaru
May 9, 2013
Bridget Pavitt
May 9, 2013
Veroy Tison
May 9, 2013
Myra Manning
stop using animals in circus use, cruelty beyond belief!
May 9, 2013
Oana Preda
May 8, 2013
Ms. Carla Compton, Advocate/Activist
May 8, 2013
Alice WITT
May 8, 2013
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May 8, 2013
Kim Edwards
May 8, 2013
joan glasser
May 8, 2013
Alexandra Gierlachowski
May 8, 2013
Laurella Scott
May 8, 2013
Susan Rossi
May 8, 2013
karlin post
Elephants need to be free
May 8, 2013
Kat Lang
May 8, 2013
Renate Rupprechter
